Is the copyright still not applicable if your encoding table has rules to reconstruct text from? No serious person would argue that copyright doesn't extend to

Is the copyright still not applicable if your encoding table has rules to reconstruct text from? No serious person would argue that copyright doesn't extend to the encoded version of the book and prevent me from profiting off it. I believe the same applies to AI generation of text/images. Just because you're encoding the data in statistical models doesn't mean that it's not encoded.